Agree with your comments... Maybe we're talking at crossed purposes: I thought you were saying that the local procedures at the airfield concerned are such that its to be expected that someone might tell the back-tracker that he is landing and expect to be able to continue anyway... sadly it seems this guy didn't go around, as you would have... So my point was just that it was proably a bit tough for ss to have armed himself with this information - i.e. not in plate, only "an informal local practice" etc.